SD @ WSH
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jorbit Vivas vs Griffin Canning - 2+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jacob Young vs Griffin Canning - 3-0.13▲3 · 1-0 ball called strike
Sung-Mun Song vs Zack Littell
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Freddy Fermin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Miguel Andujar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.